1811
JC Jacobsen is born
Our founder JC Jacobsen is born in Copenhagen, the son of a brewer.
Our founder JC Jacobsen is born in Copenhagen, the son of a brewer.
JC tastes his first bottle of Bavarian lager. He travels to Munich to study the production method before returning home with some yeast and using his mother’s bath tub to experiment with making this new kind of beer.
JC Jacobsen founds the Carlsberg brewery on a hill outside Copenhagen. He names the new brewery after his son Carl and the Danish word for hill – bjerg.
On 10th November JC brews the very first barrels of Carlsberg lager beer.
From those first 300 barrels, production has now increased to 20,000 barrels.
Samples of Carlsberg are sent to grocers Russell, Leith and Theilmann in Edinburgh. Within a year Carlsberg is being shipped to India, Singapore and Hong Kong followed by South America just a few years later.
The scientifically-minded JC creates the Carlsberg Laboratory.
Dr Emil Hansen discovers pure yeast at the Laboratory, which revolutionises the brewing process. JC shares the new discovery with brewers around the world and starts a new age of brewing.
On 30 April JC dies whilst on holiday in Rome. His son Carl takes over the brewing business named after him.
The Carlsberg logo first appears on our beer labels, and remains the same to this day.
The pH scale is established at the Carlsberg Laboratory.
Carl Jacobsen dies aged 71.
Carlsberg and Tuborg merge.
The first Carlsberg brewery in the UK opens.
By now we’ve taken full ownership of Tetley’s.
This year our operation becomes known as Carlsberg UK.
Carlsberg is now sold in over 150 countries with annual sales topping £1.3billion and our brands are the No.1 best-sellers in the lucrative take home market.
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